Beat poet raised in New Orleans and inspired by improvisational jazz structures
What is Bob Kaufman
100
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical
naked,
What is "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg
100
Cold War military conflict, aimed to prevent fall of Southeast Asia to communism
What is the Vietnam War
200
Wrote epic poem "Howl," known for charcterizing the restlessness and repression of youth in the 60's
What is Allen Ginsberg
200
Dumb kids, trying to kill a corpse.
Let it whimper itself to death.
What is "Plot to Assassinate the Statue of Liberty"
by Horace Coleman
200
Members of the National Guard fired on crowds of peaceful anti-Vietnam protesters at Kent State University, May 4, 1970
What is the Kent State Massacre
300
Surrealist Beat poet
What is Philip Lamantia
300
The Americans in Ca Mau eat tin- skinned food
play prostitute roulette
clap
syph
rigid love with rifles under the bed
What is "In Ca Mau" by Horace Coleman
300
Anti-obscenity trial ignited by publication of Allen Ginsberg's Howl, Warren court ruled that obscene and potentially offensive content should be regulated
What is Ginsberg v. New York
400
Rivulets of trickling ecstacy
From the alabaster pools of Jazz
What is Jazz Chick by Bob Kaufman
400
Failed attempt to plant American rebels on the beaches of Cuba and ignite a popular uprising against Fidel Castro's communist regime, severe humiliation for the Kennedy Administration
What is the Bay of Pigs
500
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy
What is the assassination of President John F. Kennedy